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Rudin Buys Rights to Roth Novel

The producer Scott Rudin has made a seven-figure deal to acquire film rights to the new Philip Roth novel, “Indignation,” to be published by Houghton Mifflin in September, Variety reported. Mr. Rudin said, “I’ve been a maniacal fan of Roth’s for years and waited for the one I thought could really be a great movie.” This year Mr. Rudin shared the Academy Award for best picture with Joel and Ethan Coen for their adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel “No Country for Old Men.” Mr. Roth’s novel, set during the Korean War, follows Marcus Messner, the son of a kosher butcher in Newark who is obsessively worried about being drafted. Grappling with anti-Semitism and sexual repression, he comes of age at a Lutheran college in Ohio.